Pursuit of Happiness

Undressed Skeleton: Cinnamon Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Honey Coconut Apples over Fresh Spinach!

I can’t express how delicious this salad was. I am at a loss for words. I made this yesterday for lunch to go with my bowl of soup. I’m excited about the leftover for today. I almost had it for breakfast…but was like…better not (pitch perfect)

This salad is loaded in fiber and potassium! If…

7:20 PM

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Lemon Pepper Spinach Pasta

Ingredients

one serving of spaghetti or pasta of choice

1 cup loosely packed spinach

juice from 1/2 lemon (and zest if you want a stronger lemon taste)

1 tsp olive oil

black pepper to taste

Directions

Cook pasta as the package instructs.

Put half of the spinach in a colander. When pasta is done cooking, strain through the colander. Throw the rest of the spinach on top and toss until all the water has been strained and the spinach is mixed in with the pasta.

Pour the spinach and pasta back into the pot and add the remaining ingredients. Toss and mix well until all the pasta and spinach is coated with lemon juice, olive oil, and pepper.

If you want to add a little crunch to this meal, top with a handful of nuts. I added raw cashews at the last minute and I think pistachios or pine nuts would be great in this dish, as well.

12:29 AM

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Weekly Report ; Myi ponimayem pa-russki. Well. We don’t have a choice.

Hi dear people ! :D

So, this first week at Uni was really exhausting, but it was an incredible foretaste of the year to come: “Working, working and working again!”, as my Russian teacher would repeat us after each class. I think I’m a learning nerd ; I just loved the whole thing!

I haven’t found the time to blog during the week, and I think this blog is condemned to die eventually - because of too much work for school. I didn’t even have to try to avoid Tumblr - I was obviously too absorbed by the Story of Arts pages I gotta know by Christmas (About 300 pages).

Anyway, I’m just letting you know people that I’m closing this blog down, well for now. Because I obviously don’t have the time to post things regularly. For those who’d like to keep in touch with me, you can put a message in my ask, I’ll give you my email - which is, from now, the safest way to reach me quickly x)

10:31 AM

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Day 29 - Your definition of beauty

Hm. That’s a tough one…

I always thought beauty had something to do with the person’s aura. The feeling that comes out of them - kindness, peacefulness, thoughtfulness. I’m not talking about ‘really nice people’, who share this and that, and are very christian and do this and do that, and are very much into helping orphans and stuff like that. I’m just talking about how people are inside and how it shows outside.

Beauty is something that everyone sees differently, it’s always relative, you can’t put a definition of it. I tend to think that anything I like or love is beautiful, no matter what. So, yeah. Beautiful things, beautiful souls, beautiful people.

9:51 AM

#30days

#challenge

#weightloss

Day 28 - Do you want a thigh gap ? Why ?

I want a thigh gap so my jeans won’t wear off between my legs. I don’t even know if I can have one or not, I have never tried, so… I don’t really focus on the aspect of having a thigh gap. I just think it’d be cool not having to repair/throw away my favourite pairs of jeans… :P

10:00 AM

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#weightloss

#challenge

Day 27 - How do you deal with being around food ?

I love it. I want to make love to it. But it’s not safe nor sane, so I don’t do it :P

Seriously, I love food, so it’s quite hard to not overeat. I try and remind myself quite often that I just don’t need to overeat because I need to ‘eat to live, and not to live to eat’ but it’s really hard. I’m a real glutton. I never do the groceries shopping when I’m hungry, and I try and prepare my meals well before I’m even hungry otherwise, I lose portion-control…